This week, Josh sits down with Agustina Paglayan and Vince Beiser, to discuss their books –Raised to Obey: The Rise And Spread of Mass Education and Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future, respectively. Raised to Obey is about how the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control it’s subjects. Power Metal is about how the move to green energy relies on specific metals that are causing ecological and economic damage today, and how we can improve this situation.
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Write On! Radio - Agustina Paglayan and Vince Beiser
Josh sits down with Naomi Cohn to talk about her new book The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight. Told in the form of imagined alphabetical encyclopedia entries, this meditation on progressive vision loss examines and illuminates Cohn’s at first halting then avid embrace of braille as part of relearning to read and write as an adult.
This episode, Josh sits down with author Scott Dominic Carpenter about his new book, Paris Lost and Found: A Memoir of Love. They discuss travel, loss, and the romanticization and reality of the city of Paris.
Josh sits down with Peter Godfrey-Smith to talk about his new book, Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World. In this book, Godfrey-Smith discusses how other living beings have shaped the world that we as humans have come to think of as natural.
Josh sits down with author, podcaster, and music journalist Andrea Swensson about her new book Deeper Blues: The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris. This book is the emotional story of James ‘Cornbread’ Harris – a self-proclaimed “blessed dude” and one of Minneapolis’s most influential musicians.
Josh sits down with Stephanie Ternullo to discuss her new work, How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics. This work focuses on three White blue-collar Midwestern cities to show how local contexts help us to understand why White voters are shifting to the right.
Josh Weber sits down with Ray Nayler to discuss his new novella, The Tusks of Extinction. This science fiction thriller imagines an attempt to resurrect the wooly mammoth, and examines the complexities of conservation, ecology, and human nature.
